Telangana Assembly Polls: All You Need To Know
NDTV
Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: The Assembly polls in Telangana were held on November 30 from 7 am to 5 pm and saw 2,290 candidates from 109 national and regional parties in the fray.
Telangana, following Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Mizoram, was the final state to participate in the current round of elections, viewed as a prelude to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The Assembly polls in Telangana were held on November 30 from 7 am to 5 pm and saw 2,290 candidates from 109 national and regional parties in the fray. This included 221 women and one transgender candidate. Of all the candidates, 103 legislators re-contested in the elections held on Thursday. While 35,655 polling stations were set up across the state to cater to a total of 3.17 crore voters, the turnout in the state was recorded to be 63.9% [till 5 pm].
This time around, the candidate list included names such as the incumbent Chief Minister of Telangana and Bharat Rashtra Samithi [BRS] head K Chandrasekhar Rao [KCR], his son Minister of IT of Telangana KT Rama Rao [KTR], TPCC president A Revanth Reddy as well as BJP Lok Sabha members Bandi Sanjay Kumar, among others.
